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Stop American Censorship. The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police. In 2005, Peter Mahnke, a resident of the English town of St.

The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police

Margaret's, Middlesex, set up a community website. For the past seven years, he and a handful of local volunteers have been publishing regular updates about local events, parks, new businesses, weather, and train schedules. All G-rated and uncontroversial. Yet in early March, for reasons that remain unclear, the St. Margaret's website was blocked throughout Britain on mobile Internet services offered by Orange (a subsidiary of France Telecom) and T-mobile (owned by Deutsche Telecom).

The accidental censorship of the St. European governments may not have intended to create a "privatized police state," but that is what digital rights activists in Europe warn is happening, due to growing government pressure on companies to police themselves. The St. Defend the Internet. Richard Stallman : Une société des réseaux libérée. Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices. PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet. LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with gov't to discuss national Web-censorship regime.

A group of UK copyright lobbyists held confidential, closed-door meetings with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries to discuss a plan to allow industry groups to censor the Internet in the UK. The proposal has leaked, and it reveals a plan to establish "expert bodies" that would decide which websites British people were allowed to see, to be approved by a judge using a "streamlined" procedure. The procedure will allow for "swift" blocking in order to shut down streaming of live events. Public interest groups like the Open Rights Group asked to attend the meeting, but were shut out, presaging a regulatory process that's likely to be a lopsided, industry-centric affair that doesn't consider the public.

The Open Rights Group has a campaign to repeal the DEA that you can sign onto. Thailand Clampdown on Internet Traffic Worries Companies. MEDIA SOCIAL CITOYEN FI TOUNES. Access. Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure. Google chairman warns of censorship after Arab Spring. 27 June 2011Last updated at 19:08 Google has already found itself at odds with some countries, such as China, over censorship The use of the web by Arab democracy movements could lead to some states cracking down harder on internet freedoms, Google's chairman says.

Google chairman warns of censorship after Arab Spring

Speaking at a conference in Ireland, Eric Schmidt said some governments wanted to regulate the internet the way they regulated television. He also said he feared his colleagues faced a mounting risk of occasional arrest and torture in such countries. The internet was widely used during the so-called Arab Spring. Transparency Report. Traffic – Google Transparency Report. Пользователи из более чем 30 стран не могли получить доступ к продуктам и сервисам Google.

Traffic – Google Transparency Report

Такие перерывы в работе могут быть вызваны разными причинами: от системных сбоев до блокирования по распоряжению государственных органов. Все текущие и зарегистрированные сбои приведены ниже. Список не является исчерпывающим. Подробнее... YouTube С 13 июня 2014 г. по настоящее время. Avec la valise internet, la censure se fait la malle. Index on Censorship. Online censorship hurts us all. Popcasts : Eli Pariser on the Filter Bubble.

YavTq1N418. The booming business of Internet censorship. Throughout most of the Middle East and North Africa, online censorship is the norm.

The booming business of Internet censorship

The level of censorship varies; in Morocco, only a handful of sites relating to the Western Sahara, Google Earth, and Livejournal are deemed offencive enough to ban, while other countries – like Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria – filter the internet pervasively, banning political sites as well as social content. Though the filtering itself is conducted by the governments of each country, it is made possible by technology imported mainly from the United States and Canada. World day against cyber-censorship - 12 March 2011. Une sacrée victoire pour la France. Coucou !

Une sacrée victoire pour la France

Aujourd'hui, c'est le 12 mars 2011 et c'est la journée mondiale de la cyber censure organisée par Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF). Pour "fêter" celà, ils ont mis en ligne une liste des ennemis d'Internet. Les voici : Arabie saouditeBirmanieChineCorée du NordCubaIranOuzbékistanSyrieTurkmenistanViêt-Nam Et en complément, une liste des "Pays sous surveillance", c'est à dire ceux qui en 2010, ont exercés une censure du net, via des arrestations, du harcèlements ou de la surveillance des net-citoyens mais aussi le blocage de sites web ou le vote de lois liberticides. Cybercensure : tout est bon pour bloquer l'accès libre à Internet.

UN report: "three strikes" Internet laws violate human rights. China's not the only Internet bad boy; a new UN report (PDF) calls out even developed democracies for slapping restrictions on the Internet. An official appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has released a new report on the state of online free speech around the world. In addition to calling attention to long-standing censorship problems in China, Iran, and other oppressive regimes, the report devotes a surprising amount of attention to speech restrictions in the developed world—and it singles out recently enacted "three strikes" laws in France and the United Kingdom that boot users off the Internet for repeated copyright infringement.

Dragging ISPs into the fight. Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too. Surprise!

Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too

After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn't shrink in scope—it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers, credit card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign "rogue sites"—and such court orders would not be limited to the government. How To Bypass Internet Censorship. Cyber-activistes contre dictateurs. T-Mobile Germany Blocks iPhone Skype Over 3G and WiFi: Mobile Technology News « Why Google Would Defend The Pirate Bay - Parmy Olson - Disruptors. Oppose PROTECT-IP Act: U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers. Oppose PROTECT-IP Act: U.S.

Oppose PROTECT-IP Act: U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers

Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers. WikiLeaks: Journalists: See what the...